. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ECU/43 
29 January 2009 
 (09-0410) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  ECUADOR
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):    
2. Agency responsible:   Consejo Nacional de la Calidad , CONCAL (National Quality 
Council) Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and Website addresses, if available) of agency or au thority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:  
Dirección de Políticas de Comercio (Directorate of Trade Policy) 
Subsecretaría de Comercio e Inversiones  (Under-Secretariat for Trade and Investment) 
Ministerio de Industrias y Competitividad  (Ministry of Industry and Competitiveness) 
Avda.  Eloy Alfaro y Amazonas 
Quito, Ecuador Tel.: (593 2) 255-1512 or 256-6041, ext. 162 Fax: (593 2) 250-4922 E-mail: abarbosa@mic.gov.ec;  mepoveda@mic.gov.ec 
Website: www.mic.gov.ec 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.  
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   HS tariff subheading 
9900.00.00 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Incluyese en el Anexo 
1 ("Lista de Productos Sujetos a Control"), de la Resolución 001-2008 del Consejo 
Nacional de la Calidad, CONCAL, varios productos (Inclusion of certain products in 
Annex 1 ("List of goods subject to cont rol") to National Quality Council (CONCAL) 
Resolution No. 001-2008) (5 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   Goods shipped to Ecuador prior to  the entry into force of National 
Quality Council (CONCAL) Resolutions  Nos. 001-2008 a nd 002-2008 on 
1 December 2008 require a certificate of rec ognition (Form INEN-1) issued in accordance 
with the regulations prevailing at the time of shipment (prior to 1 December 2008), 
provided that the transport documents sh ow compliance with this requirement.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To establish a transition period for the im plementation of National Quality Council 
(CONCAL) Resolutions Nos. 001-2008 and 002-2008. G/TBT/N/ECU/43 
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  8. Relevant documents:   http://www.mic.gov.ec  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:    - 
4 December 2008 
10. Final date for comments:   - 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and E-mail and Website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point: Dirección de Políticas de Comercio 
Subsecretaría de Comercio e Inversiones Ministerio de Industrias y Competitividad Avda.  Eloy Alfaro y Amazonas Quito, Ecuador 
Tel.: (+593 2) 255-1512 or 256-6041, ext. 162 
Fax: (+593 2) 250-4922 E-mail: abarbosa@mic.gov.ec;  mepoveda@mic.gov.ec Website: www.mic.gov.ec
 
Text available at:  http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2009/tbt/ecu/09_0299_00_s.pdf